File #: Int 1339-2025    Version: * Name: Exempting ambulettes from certain bus lane restrictions and allowing them to double park to assist passengers.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 7/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting ambulettes from certain bus lane restrictions and allowing them to double park to assist passengers
Sponsors: Linda Lee
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would allow ambulettes to drive in bus lanes. It would also allow ambulettes to park, stand, or stop in bus lanes and to double-park for the purposes of helping passengers board and deboard the ambulette, including in order to escort passengers to their destination and from their point of origin.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1339, 2. Int. No. 1339, 3. July 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1339

 

By Council Member Lee

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting ambulettes from certain bus lane restrictions and allowing them to double park to assist passengers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-164.1 to read as follows:

§ 19-164.1 Moving and parking exemptions for ambulettes. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “ambulette” means a wheelchair accessible van, as defined in section 19-502, licensed by the taxi and limousine commission that is under contract with Medicaid, a healthcare provider, or a senior center, as such term is defined in section 21-201.

b. Exemptions from bus lane restrictions. When bus lane restrictions are in effect on a street, it is not a violation of law for an ambulette to:

1. Drive in such lane; or

2. Park, stop, or stand in such lane while engaged in receiving or discharging a passenger, including the escorting of a passenger from the passenger’s point of origin to the ambulette or from the ambulette to the passenger’s destination, provided that an ambulette so parked, stopped, or standing shall ensure that its hazard lights are on for the duration such ambulette is parked, stopped, or standing.

c. Temporary double parking allowed. An ambulette may double park while engaged in receiving or discharging a passenger, including the escorting of a passenger from the passenger’s point of origin to the ambulette or from the ambulette to the passenger’s destination, provided that an ambulette so double parked shall ensure that its hazard lights are on for the duration such ambulette is double parked.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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LS #17746/18953/19951

07/07/2025 9:59 AM